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North Cardiganshire Plants (p. 4). — We regret that in pre- 

 paring our notes on the North Cardigan Flora we accidentally 

 overlooked some records published by the Botanical Locality Record 

 Club. In their Eeports are two lists, and some scattered notices. 

 Dr. H. Lewis Jones (Reports, 1879 and 1880) records 357 plants as 

 occurring in the county ; of these, 19 are not mentioned in Topo- 

 graphical Botany, ed. 2, or by the two earlier writers, Morgan and 

 Lees. The Bev. A. Ley (Reports, 1875 and 1884-85-86) gives the 

 names of 90 plants. By these two authorities and others the total 

 number of species for the county is increased to 708. The following 

 plants should have been marked by a dagger (+), and not by an 

 asterisk (*) :— Recorded (1) by W. Whitwell (Report, 1883).— Bidens 

 cernua; (2) by Dr. Jones— Arctium minus, Mentha arvmsis, and 

 Betula alba; (3) by Rev. A. Ley— Brassica Rapa v. Bri, N sii, 



lacustris, Sparganium simplex, Holcus mollis, Avena strigosa. The 

 number of our new county records is therefore 19 ; those of the 

 Scientific Society of the University College of Wales are reduced 

 to 8. We are glad to see Dr. Jones's remark on the poppies : he 

 only* "fn hedgef nea" th''^'" ^ ^T^ 30 ^' and recor t ds b ifc 

 absent not onfy in our areas in toTnorth part^oT the county^but 

 also m inland parts of South Cardiganshire. — J. H. Burkill and 

 J. C. Willis. 



Eleocharis acicularis (Journ. Bot. 1893, pp. 309, 371).— The 

 notes on the submerged form of this plant probably refer to the 

 forma submersa Hj. Nilss. which is noticed by Norman {Flora; 

 ArcUcas Norvegia, p. 43, 1893) as occurring in Nordlandia. He 

 suggests that it may be mistaken for Scirpus parvulus, and thinks 

 that the Greenland plant so named may be this form of acicularis. 

 In the Fens I have traced acicularis from shallow water 2-4 in. deep 

 to water 2 ft. deep, the plant gradually lengthening as the water 

 deepened, and filling up the ditch to the exclusion of everything 

 else, except here and there a patch of Nuphar lutea; but I have 

 never seen it flower in the deep water.— Arthur Bennett. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 

 Handbook of British Hepatica, containing descriptions and figures of 



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Anthoceros. By M. C. Cooke, M.A., LL.D., A.L.S. With 

 1 plates and 200 woodcuts. London: W. H. Allen & Co. 

 1894 [Nov. 1893] . Pp. viii, 310. Price 6s. 

 The appearance of a new book on the British Hepatics cannot 

 fail to arouse a feeling of excitement in the minds of all who are 

 interested m the study of this little group of plants. The want of 

 a good handbook has for many years been a serious obstacle in the 

 path of many who wished to approach the subject, and to walk in 



